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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final ceremony, Amikwu, Uchendu's youngest son, has to perform before getting married?
(a) Kwenu--shouts of approval
(b) Umuada--the gathering of daughters
(c) Uri--the ceremony of wine bringing
(d) Isa-ife--the ceremony of confession

2. Nine out of ten of Ekwefi's children die in infancy. After the second death, Okonkwo goes to the medicine man to find out why this is happening. What explanation does the diviner give?
(a) Ekwefi is weak and should not become pregnant again.
(b) Ekwefi did not eat vegetable soup throughout her pregnancies.
(c) The child is an agbanje, a wicked child that enters the mother's womb to be born again.
(d) Ekwefi should just keep trying, and sooner or later a child would survive.

3. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(b) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.
(c) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.
(d) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.

4. Who is the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves, in real life?
(a) Anasi, Okonkwo's first wife
(b) Noywe's mother
(c) Ekwefi, the second wife of Okonkwo
(d) Chielo, a widow with two children

5. Why do all the women abandon preparing the food for the uri and rush off to the Obierika's crop field?
(a) A neighbor's child went to the field and started picking the crops.
(b) A fire broke out in the field and the women have to stomp it out.
(c) There is a cow loose in the field eating the crops and the women have to catch it.
(d) The locusts landed on the crops and have to be brushed off the leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ekwefi awakes Okonkwo early in the morning pounding on his door. What is she anxious to tell him?

2. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?

3. Why do the people say "Mother is Supreme" when the man is the head of the family and his wives and children are obedient to him?

4. Which of the spectators of the wrestling match are allowed to sit around the huge circle of the wrestling ring?

5. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?

(see the answer key)

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